waterbasket
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- A basket that is woven tightly enough for carrying liquids, especially water.
- 1970, Hansjakob Seiler, Cahuilla Texts with an Introduction, page 122:
- There was a — what is it called — a big waterbasket lying there. His mother had practically filled it with what she was gathering and was ready to go home.
- 1977, Karl W. Luckert, Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, page 86:
- That is where the Squaw Dance started; and that is where the hand-bundle (drumstick) for beating the waterbasket originated.
- 2009, Grace Anne Schaefer, As Shadows Fall, page 123:
- Horda pulverized a small amount of mugwort and willow bark and set it in a waterbasket to brew into strong tea.
- 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise, page 84:
- Apt decided her visitor's arrival would be a while yet, so went back to her cottage to fetch some sweet-root scones and a woven birch waterbasket of herbal tea.
- 2016, Jarold Ramsey, Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America, page 20:
- For the first time he smokes, and for a wonder he creates a house "with smoke coming out of it—that is, a real domestic house, manmade as it were, out of which steps a beautiful woman, already carrying a waterbasket.